IBeam Ezekiel 37:15-28

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Ezekiel 37:15-28

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(ESV)

I Will Be Their God; They Shall Be My People

15 The word of the Lord came to me:

16 “Son of man, take a stick and write on it, ‘For Judah, and the people of Israel associated with him’;

then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.’

17 And join them one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

18 And when your people say to you, ‘Will you not tell us what you mean by these?’

19 say to them, Thus says the Lord God:

Behold, I am about to take the stick of Joseph (that is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with him.

And I will join with it the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, that they may be one in my hand.

20 When the sticks on which you write are in your hand before their eyes,

21 then say to them, Thus says the Lord God:

Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land.

22 And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.

one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel.

23 They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 24 “My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd.

And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms. 23 They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

24 “My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes. 25 They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children’s children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever. 26 I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore. 27 My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28 Then the nations will know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”

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shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes. 25 They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children’s children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever.

26 I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore. 27 My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

28 Then the nations will know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”

INCOMPLETION (Human need in text)

Believers, though rejuvenated, fail to live the rejuvenated life.

IMPRESSION (Big exegetical idea)

Subject (What is author talking about?)

God gave Ezekiel a message that described the life of a rejuvenated people.

Specifics (What is author saying about subject?)

What

rejuvenated people have:

experienced a reunification

experienced a restoration

experienced a renaissance

Impression (One sentence summary of text)

The people of God were promised that they would experience a reunification, restoration, and a renaissance,

IMPLICATION (Big homiletical idea)

Indication (Primary idea of the text)

The full effect of rejuvenation.

Interrogation (Probing journalistic questions)

What?

Integration (Plural noun keyword)

These evidences

Implication (One sentence summary of message)

The evidences of a rejuvenated believers is that they have:

experienced a reunification

experienced a restoration

restored

experienced a renaissance

INTENTION (Specific goal of message)

I want my people to experience the full effect of rejuvenation.

INDENTATION (Message design or structure)

Identification (Title of message)

Introduction

Ingression (Transitional sentence from introduction to Scripture reading)

Inspiration (Scripture reading)

Ingression (Transitional sentence from Scripture reading to first point)

Itemization (1) (First message point or movement)

Ideation (1) (Thoughts about first point)

Instruction (1) (Explanation)

Illustration (1)

Implementation (1) (Application)

Interconnection (Transition between message points)

Itemization (2) (Second message point or movement)

Ideation (2) (Thoughts about second point)

Instruction (2) (Explanation)

Illustration (2)

Implementation (2) (Application)

Interconnection (Transition between message points)

Itemization (3) (Third message point or movement)

Ideation (3) (Thoughts about third point)

Instruction (3) (Explanation)

Illustration (3)

Implementation (3) (Application)

Interconnection (Transition between message points)

Itemization (4) (Forth message point or movement)

Ideation (4) (Thoughts about forth point)

Instruction (4) (Explanation)

Illustration (4)

Implementation (4) (Application)

Importation (Final exhortation to apply goal of message)